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REGULATION (EEC) No 1966/73 OF THE COUNCIL of 17 July 1973 fixing, for the 1973/74 marketing year, the monthly price increases for cereals and wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, making, a price scale should be fixed stretching over eight months and beginning on 1 October ; whereas, also, account should be taken of the Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ special uses of rye in certain Community regions pean Economic Community ; and price scales for that cereal should, consequently, be fixed to begin on 1 September and stretching over nine months ; Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/ 67/EEC (*) of 13. June 1967 on the common organi­ zation of the market in cereals, as last amended by Whereas the monthly increases in the threshold EEC Regulation 1346/73 (2), .and in particular prices for other feedgrain must be fixed at the same Article 6 ( 2 ) thereof ; levell and for the same period as for barley and maize in order to maintain for the whole of the marketing year the established ratio between the Having regard to the proppsal from the Commis­ threshold prices for the various types of feedgrain ; sion ;

Whereas, because of the later beginning of the Whereas , when the number and the amount of the maize marketing year, the system applicable # to monthly .price increases and the first month during barley should not be used for that cereal and the which these are to apply are fixed, the storage costs date of 1 November should be fixed for the begin­ and interest charges for storing cereals in the ning of the monthly increases in the intervention Community, the need to ensure- that the disposal of price, the amount of which should be fixed at a stocks of cereals conforms to market requirements higher level than that for barley in order not to and the necessity that the relationship between the change the relationship at present existing between market prices of the different categories of feedgrain the intervention prices of barley and maize ; shouild be taken into account ;

Whereas to this end it should be laid down that the HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : monthly increases for soft and durum wheat should commence on 1 September, and the total of such increases, for common wheat, be fixed at 10-70 u.a . per metric ton ; whereas, in view of the higher costs Article 1 for durum wheat, the monthly increases for that cereal be fixed at a higher level than that for common wheat ; For the 1973 /74 marketing year the monthly increases to be applied to the target prices, thres­ hold prices and intervention prices for the products Whereas, since the selling period for barley and listed in Article 1 ( a ), ( b ) and ( c) of Regulation No maize is shorter than that for cerealls used for bread­ 120/67/EEC are fixed by this Regulation .

C1 ) OJ No 117 , 19 . 6 . 1967, p. 2269/67 . ( 2) OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5 . 1973 , p. 8 .

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Article2¶

The monthly increases to be applied to the target price and the threshold price for common wheat, durum wheat, rye, barley and maize, operative for the first month of the marketing year, shall be as follows :

(units of accountII 000 kg) I Common Durum wheat P.ye Barley Maize j wheat

August 1-07 1-13 0-96 , — — September October 2-14 2-26 1-92 0-85 0-85 November 3-21 3-39 2-88 1-70 1-70 December 4-28 4-52 3-84 2-55 2-55 January 5-35 5-65 4-80 3-40 3-40 February 6-42 6-78 5-76 4-25 4-25 March • 7-49 7-91 6 -72 5-10 5-10 April 8-56 9-04 7-68 5-95 5-95 May 9-63 10-17 8-64 6-80 6-80 ' June 10-70 11-30 8-64 6-80 6-80 July 10-70 ' 11-30 8-64 6-80 6-80

Article3¶

The monthly increases to be applied to the intervention price for common wheat, durum wheat, rye, barley and maize, operative 'for the first month of the marketing year, shall be as follows : ( units of account!1 000 kg) Common Durum wheat wheat Rye Barley Maize

· _ August 1-07 1-13 0-96 — — September October 2-14 2-26 1-92 0-85 — November 3-21 3-39 2-88 1-70 1-04 December 4-28 4-52 3-84 2-55 1-04 January 5-35 5-65 4-80 3-40 2-08 February 6-42 6-78 5-76 4-25 3-12 March 7-49 7-91 6-72 5-10 4-16 ' April 8-56 9-04 7-68 5-95 5-20 May 9-63 10-17 8-64 6-80 6-24 — — .— — 6-24 June July — 6-24

Article4¶

1 . The monthly increases to be applied to the threshold price for oats, buck wheat, millet, canary seed and sorghum , operative for the first month of the marketing year, shall be the same as the monthly increases applicable to the threshold price for barley.

2 . The monthly increases to be applied to the threshold price for meslin , operative for the first month of the marketing year, shall be the same as the monthly increases applicable to the threshold price for common wheat .

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Article5¶

The monthly increases to be applied to the threshold price for wheat, meslin or rye flour and to tihe threshold price for groats anid meal of common or of durum wheat, operative for the first month of the marketing year, shall be as follows :

(units of accountII 000 kg, Wheat and Groats and Groats and mesiin Rye flour meal of meal of flour common wheat durum wheat

August September 1-50 1-34 1-50 1-78 October 3-00 2-68 3-00 3-56 November 4-50 4-02 4-50 5-34 December 6-00 5-36 6-00 7-12 January 7-50 6-70 7-50 8-90 February 9-00 8-04 9-00 10-68 March 10-50 9-38 10-50 12-46 April 12-00 10-72 12-00 14-24 . May 13-50 12-06 13-50 16-02 June 15-00 13-40 15-00 17-80 July 15-00 13-40 15-00 17-80

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directily applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 17 July 1973 . For the Council The President lb FREDERIKSEN